Capital Punishment Links - Skyline Library

Death Penalty / Capital Punishment
Links Page

Databases for Finding Articles
Catalog for Finding Books
Links to Selected Web Sites

Article Databases:

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Database of viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, and magazine, journal and newspaper articles on social issues.

Click on “Capital punishment” from the list of social issues on the right or search for a specific topic not on the list.

After clicking on a social issue or doing a search, you will see links to "Viewpoint essays" on that issue. Additional documents on the issue-- including Reference articles, Statistics, Magazine, Journal and News articles, Primary Sources & more-- are available by clicking on the appropriate tabs at the top of the page.

For more specific searches, use the Advanced Search mode to combine concepts (click on Advanced on the blue task bar at top).
For example, to search for how victims’ families are affected by capital punishment, in the Advanced search mode,
-- In the first search box, enter: capital punishment
-- in the second search box, enter: victims’ famil* OR victims’ rights OR vindicat* OR retribution

Gale PowerSearch database on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Articles from popular magazines academic journals, newspapers and reference books; excellent set of general periodical databases.

Books:

The PLS Online Catalog is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library System.

Type in: capital punishment in the search box.
To Limit your results to books at Skyline College Library, scroll down to the Location pull-down menu below the search boxes; in the Location pull-down menu, select Skyline College & then click the Submit button.

Links to Recommended Web Sites:

The Death Penalty Curriculum
This site includes pro and con viewpoints, stages of a capital case, history, and how each method of execution is carried out. Interactive U.S. maps in State by State Data show executions and death row inmates by ethnicity, gender, or juveniles; legislation about the mentally retarded, juveniles, and life without parole; and methods of execution used. Included are State Summaries with facts and history, and a table of comparisons. Courtroom Cases presents various issues for jury selection and four actual cases. There is also a Teacher's Guide.

Death Penalty Information Center
Facts about the death penalty, including executions by year, by state, by method used; botched executions; list of individuals executed (1976-1998). Full-text reports on a variety of topics relating to capital punishment, including race and the death penalty, politicizing the death penalty, crisis in death penalty representation, law enforcement views, innocence and the death penalty, and cost of capital punishment.) Most information on the site is against the death penalty.

Death Penalty News
Includes information on current executions in the United States, death penalty related news, statistics on executions by state, statistical summaries, and more. The site is against the death penalty and provides information on contacting U.S. law makers and on actions regarding the death penalty. Up-dated every two weeks.

Amnesty International's Death Penalty Abolition Page
Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty (PADP) works toward the abolition of the death penalty worldwide. The site is against the death penalty

Cornell Death Penalty Project
Information on court decisions and results of relevant studies (from Cornell University Law School).

Punishment and the Death Penalty: Ethics Updates
Legislative information, statistics, and links to other sites (from University of San Diego).

Pro-death Penalty.com
Site providing information and links explicitly in favor of the death penalty.

last revised: 4-21-10
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA